[eboard-devel] Re: [eboard] some more suggestions (fwd)

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

just forwarding the reply to the previous one.

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:20:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Felipe Bergo <be...@se...>
To: qu...@qu...
Subject: Re: [eboard] some more suggestions

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Karl Chen wrote:

> Some more suggetsions for eboard:
>
>   - console window: it's weird to see two console windows that show the same
>     thing (when you're on the console tab and you have the console split on
>     the bototm).  how about always hiding the console split in the console
>     tab?

people complained that they were unable to see both board and console at
the same time and didn't find detached consoles (Windows -> Detached
Console) to be a decent solution. The split pane was already there for
bughouse, I just added a console copy there, If you don't like it, close
the split pane, but there are people who want it there.

>   - when you're following someone, the observed game tabs just keep on piling
>     on. i'm not sure what a good solution would be since it's a good idea to
>     keep old games around for at least some time. maybe a timed delete unless
>     a checkbox is marked on that board?

Settings -> ICS behavior -> Smart discard...

is the solution. It will auto discard finished games unless you are
observing it (it is the top pane), in which case a dead smiley will be
shown in the tab, meaning that the tab will die whe you get out of it.
Other than that, Settings -> Preferences -> Autosave allows auto saving to
a PGN file, so if you want to keep games, you can just open the PGN.

set unobserve 3 on FICS is also a good idea. I didn't make ebaord issue it
automatically because loads of users complain about "your interface is
messing with my vars, I hate you".

>   - scrolling:
>      - option to have the scroll-wheel scroll by either X lines or window
>        (right now it only does window, I would rather have it scroll by 1-3
>        lines)

I never had a mouse with those scroll wheels, and I have no idea how
to program them.

>      - pageup/pagedown should scroll the console window

they do. maybe your scroll wheel setting has something odd and
pageup/pagedown events are being lost ? anyway, choosing between scroll
page/scroll line is a good idea.

>   - status bar: long after a game is over the bottom still says "Game
>     started!". that should be erased/updated.

ok, will fix that.

>   - thief and blitzin have a nice feature where hitting F9 writes a "tell
>     <user> " to the input line, where <user> is the last person to have "told"
>     you something. hitting F9 again cycles through the last 3 people to "tell"
>     you. this makes it easy to reply to people.

you should play around with the <esc> key. Help -> Keys explains it more
or less, the real documentation is in the ChangeLog (many things since
0.6.x were only documented in the changelog).

But my implementation doesn't cycle thru the last 3, that's a good idea.

I've been extremely busy this last semester and was unable to work
properly on eboard. I have a pile of user patches to apply, I hope to
release something new by januery 15 2003.

Regards,

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